Australian immigration

October 19, 2016

Long term migration steadies Net permanent and long term migration into Australia seems to be steadying, summimg +266,400 in the year to August, according to the latest ABS Overseas Arrivals and Departures figures. The number of permanent settlers per annum appears to be very gradually rising again, with 57.1 per cent of settlers hailing from…

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October 23, 2015

A majority of Australians support higher immigration and an Australian population over 30 million according to Roy Morgan Research. Today 57% (up 22% since July 2010) of Australians support an Australian population of over 30 million in 30 years’ time – a stunning increase from only five years ago. Only 9% (down 15%) support a…

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October 11, 2015

The latest Overseas Arrivals & Departures figures showed rolling annual net permanent and long term migration into Australia slowing again in August to +285,990, which is the lowest figure since January 2011. …and the monthly data shows that the downtrend remains in place. This implies that annual population growth in Australia will continue to tick downwards to around +300,000…

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August 21, 2015

The 2011 Census revealed that 25 per cent of Australians were born overseas and 43 per cent have at least one overseas born parent. I believe it to be a fair assumption that today those numbers are rapidly gravitating towards 30 per cent and 50 per cent respectively. SBS provided this useful interactive tool which sources data from the…

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May 21, 2015

For some time now there have been reports of a slowdown in Australia’s resource sector, which almost singlehandedly underpinned the Australian economy during the last decade as Chinese demand for anything we could dig out of the ground grew exponentially. In fact, it could be said that the mining industry essentially shielded us from the…

December 25, 2012

Economics commentator Michael Pascoe recently wrote an insightful article on Yahoo about Australia’s population growth. He explained how both sides of politics as well as the Reserve Bank all recognize that our population is going to have to increase significantly, yet no one really wants to talk about it.

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